Manifolding pay envelope



Sept' 16, 1941 c. J. ALLEN 2,256,184

MANIFOLDING PAY ENvELoPE Filed Jime 22, 1940 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 16, 1941 MANIFOLDING PAY ENV ELOPE Charles J. Allen, Teaneck, N. J., assigner to Sinclair Refining Company, New York, N. Y., a corporation of Maine Application June 22, 1940, Serial No. 341,847-

1 Claim.

This invention relates to envelopes, particularly pay envelopes.

With the development of accounting machines and methods, and with the additional requirements imposed by various new laws, it has been found difficult and burdensome to employ envelopes for payment of wages, especially where large numbers of employees are paid in cash weekly. Various attempts have been made to simplify pay envelopes, but none of the envelopes so far employed has been found satisfactory to meet all needs.

In accordance with the present invention I have provided a pay envelope that can be prepared in an accounting machine where, in one operation. the employees wage account can be entered on the envelope and a record made for the employer. 'Ihe face of the envelope is provided with blank spaces for the entry of designated items that make up the statement of wages due, these spaces extending along the length of the face and continuing over the sealing flap. On the back of the envelope and flap and in registry with these spaces is a strip of carbon or other transfer material whereby as the data is typed on the face a copy is made for the employers record. A detachable receipt is connected to the end of the sealing flap and also provided with spaces for the entry of desired data.

For a better understanding of the invention, reference is made to the accompanying drawing, in. which- Flgure 1 is a view of the front face of the envelope;

Figure 2 is a view of the back of the envelope shown in Figure 1; and

Figure 3 is a detail, showing the envelope sealed.

'I'he envelope illustrated in the drawing is made of a single piece of paper and comprises a body or panel I and four flaps, a wide side flap 2, a narrow side flap 3, a narrow end flap 4. and, at the other end a sealing flap 5. 'I'he flaps 2, 3 and .4, are folded upon the panel I and permanently sealed to each other to form the pocket of the envelope. The flap 5 is provided with areas of adhesive 6 by means of which the envelope may be sealed when'fllled.

An extension 1 of the flap' l is detachably connected to it by means of a transverse row of perforations `8. This extension, on which are entered the period covered and the total payment received constitutes a receipt to be signed by the employee and retained by the paymaster at the time of payment.

On the front face of the envelope are printed headings for the various items that go to make up the net payment due, such as the period covered, hours worked, insurance and union dues over. boxes providing spaces 9 within which the appropriate items can be entered. In view of the great number of items which go to make up the modern industrial payroll the printed matter and spaces just referred to .extend along the entire length of the face of the envelope and over the sealing flap beyond.

'I'he back of the envelope and sealing flap is provided with astrip I 0 of carbon or other transfer or duplicating material applied in registry with the spaces 9 on the face, so that when the items are typed on the face of the envelope they may be duplicated for the records of the employer. The flaps 2 and 3, overlapping near one edge of the envelope do not interfere with the transfer of data by interposing a third thickness between the type and the sheet on which the carbon copy is made. Due .to the construction of this envelope, it can be placed in a calculating machine which in one operation will calculate and record all data concerning an employees wages, and at the same time make a permanent record of such calculation. Both employer and employee will thus have a complete record of the wages, deductions, etc.

In the sealing of this envelope, the sealing ap is folded over the mouth of the pocket and attached to the underside of the pocket. Thus sealed, the extension flap is free to be detached without opening the envelope as illustrated in Figure 3. By means of the envelope of my invention, the employee is provided with a comend flap adhesively secured to the overlapped to be deducted, etc. These headings are printed flap, said sealing flap having adhesive on the' underside thereof at opposite sides of the transfer material thereon but not over the transfer material.

CHARLES J. ALLEN. 

